| Classic Work | Work Alluded To |
| Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner) | |
| The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck) | |
| Out, Out (Robert Frost) | |
| All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren) | |
| A Time to Kill (John Grisham) | |
| No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy) | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein) | |
| As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) | |
| Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck) | |
| The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner) | |